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To: Naptowne

You're making false assumptions. I read your post; I read it in its entirety. I believe thess images should be reviewed every 9-11 anniversary. It was an attack on our nation, not on specific families. OK?


62 posted on 04/18/2006 11:19:37 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Freedom isn't free, unless you're a liberal. You then have somebody else do the fighting)
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To: Loud Mime

You did not read it carefully then. You just tried to pick an argument against a view that I do not hold. I never claimed it was an attack on specific families. I stated that I don't want graphic images of victims to be exploited. There is a difference between showing images and exploiting them, which is why the words exploit and show have been give their own special definitions that are completely different from one another. For instance I don't want politicians showing graphic images of victims in a campaign poster and saying "vote for me and this won't happen to you." Nor do I want the media to show these images in excess or in ways that dehumanize the victims. That is what I meant when I stated that I think I can understand where some victims' families are coming from when they say that they don't want things released to the public. I never argued that they have power or even any say over what is released. I simply stated that I understand where they are coming from. And anyone who thinks that all Americans were affected equally, or suffered equally on 9/11 is simplistic. There was no false assumption on my part when I challenged you for erroneously asserting that I want to baby the American people because I said that it is understandable that some people might not want the graphic deaths of their children burning and dismembered bodies to be broadcast on television.


63 posted on 04/19/2006 12:34:02 AM PDT by Naptowne
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